Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to or being of low rank or importance.
  • adjective Situated in or occurring at a low level.
  • adjective Computers Of or relating to a computer language, such as an assembly language, in which each instruction corresponds to an instruction in machine language or allows instructions to address specific memory locations or other architectural elements.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective weak; not intense.
  • adjective lower in rank or importance.
  • adjective at a low level in rank or importance.
  • adjective occurring at a relatively low altitude.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective relatively unimportant
  • adjective not intense
  • adjective computing of, or relating to a program, or to code in which each statement corresponds to a single machine instruction
  • adjective details

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lower in rank or importance
  • adjective occurring at a relatively low altitude
  • adjective at a low level in rank or importance
  • adjective not intense

Etymologies

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low +‎ level

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